[Geomoose-users] OpenWebGIS

[Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)]

This is it,  this was posted on a Linkedin channel I’m on:

https://github.com/tomchadwin/qgis2web

bobb


> On Dec 21, 2015, at 10:20 AM, Dan Little <theduckylittle at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Does anyone keep tabs on QGIS' Web Mapping tool? They were trying to
> do some mapnik/WSGI thing a few years ago that I thought was somewhat
> exciting.  Otherwise, working with QGIS could involve a few steps:
> 
> 1. Parsing the QGIS project files (easy enough IIRC)
> 2. Collecting/normalizing the data.
> 3. making a mapbook.
> 4. generating mapfiles (probably the hard part for anything complex).
> 
> BrianF and I have discussed this idea quite a few times over the years
> but have never been able to get enough funding/interest to really move
> it forward.  Once people get over the basic threshold of learning
> mapfiles they don't seem to be bothered much.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:17 PM, James Klassen <klassen.js at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I did a Rails app years back that did this too.   Upload a shapefile and
>> dynamically generated a mapbook and mapfile.  The styling was all SLD and a
>> default style was generated based on the shapefile type but had to be hand
>> edited from there.
>> 
>> On Dec 16, 2015 12:15 PM, "Brent Fraser" <bfraser at geoanalytic.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Eli,
>>>  I totally agree with your 90% approach to support.
>>> 
>>>  Not too sure about the QGIS extension option.  I've used an existing
>>> plugin to generate map files and was not impressed.  It had some trivial
>>> bugs, but the main problem was the level of coding needed to replicate a
>>> QGIS project in a map file with all the coordinate systems and styling
>>> options (and mapserver versions!).
>>> 
>>>  To some extent, I would have a similar problem with my Python code, but
>>> its main purpose is just to get the mapbook and template syntax right.
>>> 
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Brent Fraser
>>> 
>>> On 12/16/2015 10:28 AM, Eli Adam wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hey Dan,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Some of their features are intriguing:
>>>>>     View -> Timeline
>>>>>     Project -> Save/Load
>>>>>     About -> Game
>>>>> 
>>>>> And
>>>>>     Edit -> Upload Shapefile
>>>>> 
>>>>>     That last one is interesting as I had built some Python to take a
>>>>> shapefile and generate a GeoMoose-friendly Maperver .map file and
>>>>> snippets
>>>>> for Geomoose's mapbook.xml (when answering some support questions the
>>>>> person
>>>>> frequently sends me a shapefile and a plea for help).  But shipping the
>>>>> Python to users would just generate more support questions.   Maybe the
>>>>> answer is to host the Python (or the PHP equivalent) on the Geomoose.org
>>>>> site?
>>>> 
>>>> A QGIS extension that exports the same might be an option as well.
>>>> 
>>>> For users I support, the goal is to take 90% of the users to what they
>>>> need with GeoMoose.  The remaining 10% getting the higher effort to do
>>>> custom one-off projects for them, design some other process and
>>>> system, or install and train them in QGIS or ArcMap.  Trying to
>>>> shoehorn the last 10% into your all purpose tool takes way more than
>>>> 10% of the effort and is not worth it.  Or at least that is my
>>>> approach.
>>>> 
>>>> Eli
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
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